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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1934-07-06

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1934-07-06, page 01

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Vohtiiic XVII—Nn. 27
COLUMBUS, OJIIU, July 6, 11J34
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CommunnI Merry Go 'Round
' lierc is going to be more (ll.lil the lisii.il ronunolion at llie <jniil-<|uenriial ll'iiiii U'fiih iriicrnational convention next ye.'ir.. .There i.s :t pns.sibility'of a coti- list ijclwcen I. M. Rubinow and Richard ('iitstadt for the executive secretaryship ¦¦¦And then there is lalk about the "re- liri-nient" ot Alfred M. Cohen as presi- "leiit fit the B'n.ii K'rith and his substi¬ tution by Ilenry Moiisky of Omaha... Ilul all kinds of things nay happen in a year...There will he a new national sec¬ retary of the Jewish National Fund— we're told...I. Rubin, tor many years the headman in the JNF office, is slated lo be pensioned and will be replaced by M. Zeldin or Harry Sackler or maybe Mor- tlccai Solles...And the Americm Jewiiib Congress is still looking tor a good man I" run tlic elections for llie World Jew¬ ish Congress in this country and to put ¦some iiep into the outfit.. .Which reminds ii.^ Ihat it is being rumored tbat the presi¬ dent ot lbe board of aldermen of the City of .\'ew York (Deutsch.) is putting the president of the American Jewish Con¬ gress (Deutsch) in Dutch.. .13ernard Daruch's retirement story,is slightly ex¬ aggerated... The ncwoiaces to wliich he is moving are larger than his old hang¬ out and there will be a stock exchange ticker...
In Capital Letters
Anna Hurwitz, secretary to Col. Ed. Haiscy. secretary of the United States Senate,, won third place in a poll of Washinglon newspapermen for the most beautiful employee of the Senate...En¬ rico Glicenstcin. the Jewish-Polish-Italian ¦sciiiptor, just fmished a bust of President Roo.scvelt...ll took three sittings dur¬ ing which the President discussed and signed soine of the most important bills ... Baron Maurice dc Rothschild, scion of the Jewisii banking dynasty, took French Ambassador Laboulaye aback during his visit 10 the capitol... When Maurice ex¬ pressed a desire to meet Roosevelt, the ambassador said it might be difficult, to which Rothschild replied that his friend Senator Joe Robinson : was introducing bim...When Laboulaye tried to make amends by offering his distinguished com¬ patriot a seat in the Senate gallery, Roth¬ schild retorted that his friend Senator Hiram Jolmson had already obtained one tor him...When the ambai;sador, in des¬ peration offered to Monsieur Rothschild a glas,? of wine, the visitor, believe it or not, retiised, on the grounds that lie doesn't drink, not even wine.. .Louis D. Brandeis told the Yale Daily News (in one of his rare statements^ that "judging from the universities I have visited I think that most undergraduates learn to live too luxuriously in college. There arc, so many people in dire need that it seems ii shame to waste so much on col¬ lege students"...The Brandeis menage docs not employ a full time servant... Things 1 Never Knew Till Now
Tl)e fair maiden to whom the poet Heine, addressed his famous verses bc- gimiing "Du bist wie eine Blume, so hold and schoen und rein," was a nice little white—pig...Dorotliy Parker, tile author and poet, signed herself Dorotliy Roth¬ schild at one time, being the daughter of Henry Rothschild of a small town of New Jersey. ..Ben Eckstein, of New York, is stone blind, but enjoys a good horse race or bicycle race more than any¬ thing else...Friends of George Burns of Burns .ind Allen call him Bootiie, but since the notoriety of Putzi Hanfstaengle, George has forbidden his friends to call him that way...It sounds too much like Putzi... Professor Clare Archibald claims that ii=c—'72=0.2078705703 is the mathematical formula which means that one pound sterling is worth $4.81 ...Don't ask us to prove it.. .Jacqueline . Goldschmidt.of l-'rance is considered the best tennis prospect" in her country and she proved it by winning the tennis cham¬ pionship of London...The reason why the Italian niusic critics lambasted Ernest Blocb's Jewish Service recital at La Scala, ill Milan, last month, was because they were not admitted to the general rehearsal and because they are too chau- vini.stic to admit tbat non-Italians can be niusicians.. .Incidentally Bloch believed that tbe performance of his Jewish Serv¬ ice at iierlin would destroy anti-Semitism ill Naziland (be once told ns so) but the performance did not prove that Bloch was wrong because not a single non-Jew came to bear his music.. .Diego Rivera was insulted recently because his drawing of Hitler in one of the panels on the walls of the New Workers' School of Mexico did not'niake Hitler "brutal enough"... He couldn't have made it enough— never...
The Low Down
Max Baer is getting only J6000 per (.Conlinned on page 2)
IS HITLER COLLAPSING?
The Significance of the Recent Developments in Germany Ky BERNArSIi^TAL
la there a split in tho Nazi ranks?
Ts the Kaiser cvming back?
Can the Jew.s expect, a New Deal from a Vim Papeii dictatorship?
Arc the rumors based on facts?
These questions and many more ore disHcctod and answered by the Man¬ aging Editor o^ the Seven Arits in a comprehensive interpretation of the great question mark: "Is Hitler Col¬ lapsing?"—Tho E4litor.
Witliin tlie last fortnight the world has Ijceii deluded by a flood o> rumors indi¬ cating that the Hitler rogunc is'menaced hy a .serious inlehial crisis. In apparent support of these whisperings events have occurred which seemingly reveal that the end of Nazii.siii in Germany is at hand. Usually reliable and well-informed ob¬ servers of the German political and eco¬ nomic scene appear to be at one in be¬ lieving that Hitler \% cracking, that his apparently invincible machine is falling to pieces and that we are on the eve of a major upheaval in Germany. What is the basis for this, growing and wide¬ spread opinion?
That Hitler is facing trouble at home there can be no doubt. The deliberate default of Germany on her short and middle term foreign obligations consti¬ tutes a frank admission that eighteen months of Nazi rule have forced Ger- inany inlo virtual national bankruptcy. The sensational outburst of criticism against so-called Nazi radicalism by Vice Chancellor Von Papen, spokesman for the land barons and industrialists, is unmis¬ takable evidence,of a serious rift in the Nazi cabinet.. The German industriafists and Junkers, who helped Hitler climb to power, are about ready to dump Iiini. Rumblings of unrest in the army jind even in the Nazi holy of holies, the storm troops, idd to Hitler's headaches.. Uii- questiom.bly the situation in Germany is tense and unstable. These are the -facts, What of the rumors?
A "personage" close to the former Kaiser lias proclaimed tbat a military dic¬ tatorship, will be established in Germany in September. This mysterious "person¬ age" declares that plans for the dictator^, ship, which would oust the Nazi govern¬ ment, were formed and ready for execu¬ tion at the appointed hour. This author¬ ity holds tbat Hitler will not last through the winter because General Werner von Hloinherg, non-Nazi war minister, is ready tojjroclaim martiai law, exile Hit¬ ler and invite tbe Hohenzolierns back to Germany.
Another authority, Johannes Steel, one time advisor to the German ministry of economics, predicts a Hohenzollern res¬ toration within two weeks although with¬ out necessarily eliminating Hitler as a key figure. According to Steel, Hitler will be stripped of power but permitted to retain a vestige of his prestige by the very people who lifted him into the seats of the mighty, the Jufikers and tbeir al¬ lies, the industrialists. Steel holds that Hindcnburg will retire and a Hohenzol¬ lern or Hitler become regent or president. V'on Papen or Hernian Goering will be¬ come chancellor, Steel maintains, while the real rulers of Germany will be Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, and the coterie of reaction¬ ary steel baron.'! headed by Fritz Thys¬ sen, the financiers of the Nazi movements.
Those viho take stock in these lurid rumors forget the history, of the. Nazi rise to power. When Hindenburg, at the behest of Von Papen and his clique, named Hitler chancellor, it was generally believed that Hitler would be only a figurehead with the industrialists and Junkers pulling the strings. How ef¬ fectively^ , Hitler and his brown-shirted cohorts side-tracked Von Papen, Hugen- berg and company and made themselves undisputed inasters of Germany is his¬ tory. It is therefore hard to understand how Hitler in the role of president oi regent would be less powerful than, ho is now.
Those who believe that Von Papen's critical blast presages a new deal for Germany also ignore fundamental facts. Von Papen does not speak for the masses of Germany. He is merely the mouth¬ piece of the German industrialists and Junkers who oppose Hitler's foreign pol¬ icies liecause of their efifect on German exports and hence on the profits of Ger¬ man magnates. Von Papeit's outburst may, at best, lead only to realignment in the Hiller cabinet and some minor modi¬ fications in policy.
A9 a matter of fact, Hitler stiH holds the trump cards in the political game being played between the Nazis and the industrialists. His ace in the hole is his rather skillful jockeying thus far between
which enables him to throw his entire weight in one or tlie other direction. Should the Junkers, led by Von Papen aii'd Von IJIombcrg, actually attempt a coup and,, try to institute a military dic¬ tatorship over his he:id, Hitler coukl un- doiibtetlly corral the strciigtli of the la- horing masses and so defeat such a putsch. That Von Papen and his allies hold Hitler's powers and personal pres¬ tige in high rcs|)ect wa.s made clear when tlic X'^ice Chancellor followed up his criti¬ cal speech with a eulogy of the Fuehrer as the savior nf Germany.
Jt is the opinion of this observer that, notwithstanding all the furor about Hit¬ ler cracking, it is childish to believe that the legends so painstakingly and effec¬ tively woven around Hitler can be so quickly destroyed and he himself so easily displaced. Hitler is smart enough to play a waiting game. His tactics prove that he has absolute confidence in the invinci¬ bility of the Nazi machine. If.he had even a slight doubt of his own power he could easily crush Von Papen. now by taking the offensive.
Ohviniisly, Hitler will hold his band until after the economic conference be¬ tween his representatives ami the British government. He, like every other Euro¬ pean statesman, knows tbat the European situation is fast apiiroaching a crisis, The activities of Louis Earthous. French for¬ eign minister, on one hand, Maxim Lit vinov, Soviet foreign minister, on the other, the-scramble of the smaller powers to align themselves with one or the other European blocs'now being formed, the armament race, which is being pushed with full force despite protestations of pcaccj- and the definite stand by all the great powers not to pay war debts even at the risk of precipitation of a nation¬ alistic economic war indicate quite plainly that important events will take place S;hortIy. ¦ In these Germany cannot be ig¬ nored. And Hitler can afford to wait for thein.
Thus far all of the rumors of Hitler's impending downfall are still only rumors notwithstanding the admitted seriousness of the domestic crisis confronting him, For the Jews and the anti-Fascist forces as a whole to take these rumors at their face value would be a serious mistake, Once and for all it must, be recognized that Von Papen, the Hohenzolierns and their allies were among the-most rabid supporters of the Nazis.. Even if Von Papen and his industrialist partners were to displace Plitlcr it would be ludicrous to expect any relief from them. If the opposition to Hitler came from the So¬ cialists or liberals a real anti-Nazi revo¬ lution might be: expected, but as it is, all that can be looked for is a shift in per¬ sonalities.
The truth of the matter is that the Nazi setup in Germany is not only not collapsing but is not even gioggy. A change from Hitler to Von Papen or a HphciizoUern would be one of names, not principles and ulcology. It is. not plaus¬ ible to expect that a new regime, domi¬ nated by those responsible for Hitler's triumph would risk arousing the anti Semitic clement by reversing the Nazi policy toward the Jews. That a govcrn- nieiit controlled by Junkers and industrial barons would restore the rights of labor is too silly even to imagine. For Jews to hail Von Papen as a savior and liber¬ ator would be suicidal, for if he and his sui)porters,actually come into power and do not eradicate, conditions which have made the Nazi regime, an international by-word, the Jews will be out on a limb, Enlightened public opinion everywhere can support a. new regime in Germany only if it undoes everything for which the Hitler government is responsible. Any other change in Germany would be simply a delusion. (Copyright WH)
AHAVAS SHOLEM PICNIC SUNDAY AT OLENTANGY
The annual picnic. of the Ahavas Sholem Sisterhood will be held tbis Sun¬ day (tomorrow) at Olentangy Park. All members, their families and friends are cordially invited to come out to the park early and spend the entire day in com¬ fort and pleasure. Many games and con¬ tests will be on the day's program, aside from tbe interesting attractions of tlie park.
Tickets for tbe picnic are still available from any of the members. Pack your baskets and come out early.
Agfiidath Ackim Picnic July 29
Tha Sisterhood of the Agudath Achim Congregatioti wisli'to announce that their annual picnic will be held at Olentangy Park on Sunday, July 29. Rpmember to the industrialists and the laboring masses reserve this date.
Secretary of State Hull Blames
Germany's Financial
Plight on Nazis
WASHINGTON,. U, C —Germany's ddiue.stic |)olicies, which have created op- pu.sitiuii ill m,-uiy parts of the world and which tlius gave rise to a boycott of Gcniian goods, iiffccting Geniiaiiy's for¬ eign exchange position, an<l not condi¬ tions over which the German government had no control, arc responsible for the Reich's linancial plight culminating in t!ic suspension of foreign debt service on July 1, Secretary of State Hull declared in a bluntly-worded note acknowledging Hie German notp of June 15 announcing tiie moratorium.'
Mr. Hull's note, couched in diplomatic language and i)rcsentcd to Rudolf Leitner, charge d'affaires of the German embassy, point-blank blamed the. policies of the Nazi regime for Germany's present finan¬ cial crisis. He said plainly that these policies have created resciitniciit throiigh- out the world. The Secretary of State, in taking issue with the Gernian contcn- tjuii that the Reich was a victim of cir¬ cumstances hcyoiid its control, pointed out liirce other weaknesses in the Gernian ar¬ gument: anxiety arou.-^cd by various phases of German policy has caused for¬ eign creditors to withdraw their credits from Germany; a general belief that ^German bonds had been repurchased at depreciated prices at a time when the German government was striving to keep in existence conditions which caused the low qiititalions, employing for this pur¬ pose exchange which could have been used by the Reichshank to liquidate its foreign service obligations; German pur-, chases abroad of material suitable for military use at the expenditure of avail- aljlc exchange, which lessened Germany's ability to meet her external obligations.
Zionists Embark on Ambitious Program for Palestine, Diaspora- Votes Call for Emergency American Jewish Congress
Felix Warburg Attends JFirst Z. 6. A. Convention; Roth-
enberg Administration's Record Well Received;
Lewisohn and Samuel Address Huge Banquet
DELEGATES APPROVE PLAN TO BROADEN
ZIONIST ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES
Jewish Shelter Home Will Move Into New Quarters
Local Campaign for Funds to Main- .tain.Institution Now in Progress
The Hachnosis Orchim Society wdl .soon move into their new home at S23 Kast Livnigstoii avenue. This home was a doniition given by the late Mrs. Rich- man tor the .sole purpose of accommodat¬ ing those unfortunates passing through our city. Tile home is now being re- nindelcil tbroughout, and a new kitchen with all modern conveniences is also in line with the alterations. .
The present soliciting committee is composed (it onr worthy Rabbi Leopold (Jreeiiwald and Mr. Wm. Cohen, wbo liavc already turned in liberal contribu¬ tions from families they have solicited. Additional committees will be appointed sborlly to cooperate with Rabbi Green¬ wald and Mr.,Cohen.
It is hoped that every Jeiv hi Colum¬ bus, when approached by the Hachnosis Orchim committees, ivill respond to their call. Whether their donation be large or sniall, it will be highly .¦ippreciated.
The building committee includes Mr, Nathan B. Cohen, Mr, Wm. Cohen and Mr. C. H. Furman.
PERFECTS NEW INFANTILE PARALYSIS VACCINE
NEW YORK (WNS)—A new and cITective vaccine for the prevention of in¬ fantile iiaralysis has been perfected by Dr. Maurice Brodie, of the New ,York University add Bellevue Hospital Medi¬ cal School. By means of Dr. Brodie's vaccine, which is injected under the skin, the viriis, or'invisible germs, of the dread disease is made inactive by tlic drug torinalin. The vaccine has been used suc¬ cessfully on nionkeys and lias the prop¬ erty ot making both the local tissues and the blood stream immune to the disease.
FRED LAZARUS; JR., NAMED
Fred Lazarug., Jr., secretary-treasurer of their. & R, Lazarus & Co., has been named vice president, in charge of ,Ohio and Michigan, of Retailers' Protective Conimitt&e of the National Retail Dry Goods Association.
'Hie purpose of the committee is to protect the interests of consumers against unjustified price-raising developments fos¬ tered by National Recovery Administra¬ tion codes, according to oiricials of tht association.
Thirteen other merchants were selected for vice presidential posts.
TEMPLE ISRAEL SERVICES
Rryden Road Temple is holding Sab¬ bath Services on every Friday evening during the months of July and August in the Vestry at 8:00 o'clock. It con¬ sists of a brief reading of the Sabbath Eve ritual.
By Bernard Postal
ATLANTIC CITY (WNS)—Meet¬ ing under the shadow of Hitlerism on the one hand and the continued healthy development of Palestine on the other, the ;t7th annual convention of the Zionist Organization of America devoted its first few sessions almost exclusively to a dis¬ cussion of the issues raised in the presi¬ dential message of Morris Rothenbcrg who proi)osed that the Zionists of Amer¬ ica modify their twenty-year old policy and adopt as one of their major con¬ cerns full participation in Jewish cultural md communal work as a vvhole in addi¬ tion lo aiding the rebuilding of Palestine.
While no actual controversies devel¬ oped, it became clear from the outset that many Zionist leaders were of the opinion that the important work for the Z. O. A. was not so much Zionist ac¬ tivity in the Diaspora as the need for prevailing tqion Great Britain to open wide the gates of Palestine to the hun¬ dreds of tboiLsands of Kast European Jew.s forced to migrate because of anti- Semitism. In line with this idea, Mr. Lipsky suggested the sunmioniiig of an extraordinary all-Jewish conference of representatives of all classes, and dements of American Jewry in order to persuade iMigland to open the doors of Palestine because "Palestine, is the only hope for the hundreds of" thousands of Jews trap¬ ped in EuroiJc which lias been turned into a concentration camp." Supported by Abe Goldherg. Charles Cowan, Jacob de Haa-'* and Robert Szold, this recom¬ mendation gained the approval of the convention whcii the delegates instructed the incoming administration to convene .HUch a conference not later than Decern her ;H, Ift'i'l, in order to mobilize the [)ower of ,/\nierican Jewry behind the proposal of Mr. Lipsky which was also contained in Mr, Rothenberg's presiden¬ tial address.
. One of. the dramatic features of the convention was the-presence of Felix M. Warburg, the first time be has ever ap¬ peared at a Z. O. A. .convention and ad¬ dressed the delegates.. His presence was interpreted as a turning point in the his¬ tory of American Zionisin and regarded as another indication that tbe Rothenbcrg administration had succeeded in getting the backing of all clenients of American Jewry. Mr. Warburg's address was de¬ voted to an impressive marshalling of figures showing how much the non-Zion- i ists had helped in the rebuilding of Pales¬ tine and, to a defense of the Jewish Agency. The latter's moral prestige, he said, had been extremely valuable in the political negotiations of the past five years and had'vindicated those who be¬ lieved it would be an instrument for Jew'isb unity. A huge audience of Zion¬ ists from all parts of the country, dele¬ gates and guests, attended the convention banquet which was featured by notable addresses by Ludwig LewiBolin and Maurice Samuel.
Mr. Kothenberg, in his presidential messagcj urged that not only must the Z. O. A. enlarge its present program in order to extend its opportunities for serv¬ ice to Palestine, but it must broaden its sphere of influence by becoming the in¬ strumentality for combatting "alien and disruptive influences" which threaten Anicrican Jewry. Pointing out that it has always been coiiiiidered .sound Zion¬ ist philus(jphy and practice to participate in the cultural and spiritual development of Jewish life everywhere, Mr. Rothen¬ bcrg emphasized that the Z, 0, A. has a duty to strengthen the Jewish spirit wherever it may be, to resist the forces of assimilation and to block the trend tor ward what be called the de-Judaizing of the modern Jew without as-similating bim.
Mr. Rothenbcrg stresses the fact that he hud no intention of having the Z. O. A. assume the tasks now performed by other Jewish communal and educational insti¬ tutions but he asserted that it had a defi¬ nite duty to perform in the field of Jew¬ ish education by giving "support to those forces which are aligned with the na¬ tional ideal and help them mold the con¬ tent and course of Jewish education in this country." He also recommended a sustained program of Zionist education among young and, old and urged the Z. O. A. to employ "ils full prestige and strength to correct the historic injustice" of Jewish education being starved for lack of support by communal welfare funds.
He further recommended "Zionist in¬
terest in the formulation of Jcwisli com¬ munity programs, a more active program nf assistance and .stimulating of the growth and niaintenaiicc of Jewish youth organizations. In short, Mr. Rothenbcrg conlendc(I that, "to keep Jewish forces together in our own world for the bene¬ fit of our national culture is essentially that work of Jewish survival to which Zionism is dedicated; the preservation of those forces not only adds to the Jewish spiritual wealth of the present but by furnishing a fine human material for Palestine, prepares the wfiy for the luI- tural work to come in the, full develop¬ ment of the Jewish National Home."
Elsewhere in. his address Mr. Rothen¬ bcrg reported that the Z. Q. A. deficit had been, reduced by *5'(,00Q since W32 and that since UJ32 Z. O. A. membership had more than doubled.
Mr. Warburg announced to the con¬ vention that with the aid gf James G. MacDonald, League of Nations High Commissioner for German Refugees, there has been formed a Refugees Eco¬ nomic Rehabilitation Corporation which has alrea<ly $1,000,000 subscribed for its purposes. This corporation will be en¬ tirely separate from the relief funds that are now being obtained in the United States and elsewhere by popular sub¬ scription. Mr. Warburg, who received an ovation from the convention, lauded the role Palestine has come to play in the solution of the Jewish problem, asking "what other country is there,-for the dis¬ franchised Jews, a bopefiil future can be envisioned? What has been happening in Palestine has caused a revision of opinion in the minds of many American Jews. I only wish that all those who hold frozen prejudices against Palestine would actually visit that cbuntry." Hearty applause greeted the noted philan¬ thropist's assertion that "it must be re¬ sponsibility of all of us to assist in the devcloimicnt of Palestine so that we can transfer a maximum number of Jews from the misery and poverty in which they now live to a land that will enable them to be self-respecting and self-sup¬ porting." ' .- f
Jewish Welfare Mobilization
Committee Includes Fred
Lazarus and Sam Thai
NEW YORK—Plans for a Jewish Welfare Mobilization and the organiza¬ tion of a Mobilization Committee of IDO comnninity leaders from all sections of the country to sponsor joint appeals for national and international Jewish relief and welfare agencies were announced here today by the' National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. The announcement was made by William J. Shroder, of Cincinnati, Ohio, president of the national council; which, at its an¬ nual session in Chicago last January, ap- puinteil an interim committee, headed by Ira M. Younker, of New York, to foster the iiuibilization organization.
The primary purpose of the mobiliza¬ tion plan, the announcement explains, is to bring about tbe holding of joint, co¬ operative fund-raising campaigns in com¬ munities throughout, the country by tloe minii:rous welfare, relief, educationar and other Jewisii organisations which now in¬ dividually seek support. Consideration of every type of Jewish interest and activity is a basic feature of the plan, Mr. Shroder said, and to this end a mobiliza¬ tion committee membership has been sought which would reilect American Jewry in its entirety.
included in the niembership of the com¬ mittee arc, Mr. and Mrs, Felix M. War¬ burg, Percy S. Straus, B. Charncy Vlad- eck and Nathan Straus, Jr., of New York; Sy Sidney Landsburgh, of Balti¬ more. Md.; Louis E. Kirstein, of Boston, Mass.; Eugene Warner, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Albert D. Lasker, of Chicago, III.; Mux Hirsch, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Ed¬ ward ^L Baker, of Clevciand, Ohio; Lee J. Lovcnthal, of Nashville, Tenn,; Fred M. ButzcP, of Detroit, Mich.; Joseph Weingarteii, of Houston, Tex.; G. A. Efroymson, of Indianapolis, Ind.; Judge H. A. Holzer, of Los Angeles, Cal.; I. S. Joseph, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Henry Monsky, of Ontaha, Nebr.; Dr. Cyrus A<ller, of Philadelphia. Pa,; Leon Falk, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Gov, Julius Meier, of Portland, Ore-J.Tsidore Loeb, of St, Louis, Mo-; Jesse Steinhart, of (Continued ou page 2)
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^j^^iS^SSa^i:-:^^^*^^- '=^' ^'¦¦"¦-k
Central Ohio's Only
Jewish Nezvspaper
Reaching Every Home
1 ' . ¦
Devoted to American
atid
Jewish Ideals
,?'''.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Vohtiiic XVII—Nn. 27
COLUMBUS, OJIIU, July 6, 11J34
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
Strictly Confidential
Tid-liits From Everywhere
iij PUiNigAB 1. ninoN
CommunnI Merry Go 'Round
' lierc is going to be more (ll.lil the lisii.il ronunolion at llie rumors indi¬ cating that the Hitler rogunc is'menaced hy a .serious inlehial crisis. In apparent support of these whisperings events have occurred which seemingly reveal that the end of Nazii.siii in Germany is at hand. Usually reliable and well-informed ob¬ servers of the German political and eco¬ nomic scene appear to be at one in be¬ lieving that Hitler \% cracking, that his apparently invincible machine is falling to pieces and that we are on the eve of a major upheaval in Germany. What is the basis for this, growing and wide¬ spread opinion?
That Hitler is facing trouble at home there can be no doubt. The deliberate default of Germany on her short and middle term foreign obligations consti¬ tutes a frank admission that eighteen months of Nazi rule have forced Ger- inany inlo virtual national bankruptcy. The sensational outburst of criticism against so-called Nazi radicalism by Vice Chancellor Von Papen, spokesman for the land barons and industrialists, is unmis¬ takable evidence,of a serious rift in the Nazi cabinet.. The German industriafists and Junkers, who helped Hitler climb to power, are about ready to dump Iiini. Rumblings of unrest in the army jind even in the Nazi holy of holies, the storm troops, idd to Hitler's headaches.. Uii- questiom.bly the situation in Germany is tense and unstable. These are the -facts, What of the rumors?
A "personage" close to the former Kaiser lias proclaimed tbat a military dic¬ tatorship, will be established in Germany in September. This mysterious "person¬ age" declares that plans for the dictator^, ship, which would oust the Nazi govern¬ ment, were formed and ready for execu¬ tion at the appointed hour. This author¬ ity holds tbat Hitler will not last through the winter because General Werner von Hloinherg, non-Nazi war minister, is ready tojjroclaim martiai law, exile Hit¬ ler and invite tbe Hohenzolierns back to Germany.
Another authority, Johannes Steel, one time advisor to the German ministry of economics, predicts a Hohenzollern res¬ toration within two weeks although with¬ out necessarily eliminating Hitler as a key figure. According to Steel, Hitler will be stripped of power but permitted to retain a vestige of his prestige by the very people who lifted him into the seats of the mighty, the Jufikers and tbeir al¬ lies, the industrialists. Steel holds that Hindcnburg will retire and a Hohenzol¬ lern or Hitler become regent or president. V'on Papen or Hernian Goering will be¬ come chancellor, Steel maintains, while the real rulers of Germany will be Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, and the coterie of reaction¬ ary steel baron.'! headed by Fritz Thys¬ sen, the financiers of the Nazi movements.
Those viho take stock in these lurid rumors forget the history, of the. Nazi rise to power. When Hindenburg, at the behest of Von Papen and his clique, named Hitler chancellor, it was generally believed that Hitler would be only a figurehead with the industrialists and Junkers pulling the strings. How ef¬ fectively^ , Hitler and his brown-shirted cohorts side-tracked Von Papen, Hugen- berg and company and made themselves undisputed inasters of Germany is his¬ tory. It is therefore hard to understand how Hitler in the role of president oi regent would be less powerful than, ho is now.
Those who believe that Von Papen's critical blast presages a new deal for Germany also ignore fundamental facts. Von Papen does not speak for the masses of Germany. He is merely the mouth¬ piece of the German industrialists and Junkers who oppose Hitler's foreign pol¬ icies liecause of their efifect on German exports and hence on the profits of Ger¬ man magnates. Von Papeit's outburst may, at best, lead only to realignment in the Hiller cabinet and some minor modi¬ fications in policy.
A9 a matter of fact, Hitler stiH holds the trump cards in the political game being played between the Nazis and the industrialists. His ace in the hole is his rather skillful jockeying thus far between
which enables him to throw his entire weight in one or tlie other direction. Should the Junkers, led by Von Papen aii'd Von IJIombcrg, actually attempt a coup and,, try to institute a military dic¬ tatorship over his he:id, Hitler coukl un- doiibtetlly corral the strciigtli of the la- horing masses and so defeat such a putsch. That Von Papen and his allies hold Hitler's powers and personal pres¬ tige in high rcs|)ect wa.s made clear when tlic X'^ice Chancellor followed up his criti¬ cal speech with a eulogy of the Fuehrer as the savior nf Germany.
Jt is the opinion of this observer that, notwithstanding all the furor about Hit¬ ler cracking, it is childish to believe that the legends so painstakingly and effec¬ tively woven around Hitler can be so quickly destroyed and he himself so easily displaced. Hitler is smart enough to play a waiting game. His tactics prove that he has absolute confidence in the invinci¬ bility of the Nazi machine. If.he had even a slight doubt of his own power he could easily crush Von Papen. now by taking the offensive.
Ohviniisly, Hitler will hold his band until after the economic conference be¬ tween his representatives ami the British government. He, like every other Euro¬ pean statesman, knows tbat the European situation is fast apiiroaching a crisis, The activities of Louis Earthous. French for¬ eign minister, on one hand, Maxim Lit vinov, Soviet foreign minister, on the other, the-scramble of the smaller powers to align themselves with one or the other European blocs'now being formed, the armament race, which is being pushed with full force despite protestations of pcaccj- and the definite stand by all the great powers not to pay war debts even at the risk of precipitation of a nation¬ alistic economic war indicate quite plainly that important events will take place S;hortIy. ¦ In these Germany cannot be ig¬ nored. And Hitler can afford to wait for thein.
Thus far all of the rumors of Hitler's impending downfall are still only rumors notwithstanding the admitted seriousness of the domestic crisis confronting him, For the Jews and the anti-Fascist forces as a whole to take these rumors at their face value would be a serious mistake, Once and for all it must, be recognized that Von Papen, the Hohenzolierns and their allies were among the-most rabid supporters of the Nazis.. Even if Von Papen and his industrialist partners were to displace Plitlcr it would be ludicrous to expect any relief from them. If the opposition to Hitler came from the So¬ cialists or liberals a real anti-Nazi revo¬ lution might be: expected, but as it is, all that can be looked for is a shift in per¬ sonalities.
The truth of the matter is that the Nazi setup in Germany is not only not collapsing but is not even gioggy. A change from Hitler to Von Papen or a HphciizoUern would be one of names, not principles and ulcology. It is. not plaus¬ ible to expect that a new regime, domi¬ nated by those responsible for Hitler's triumph would risk arousing the anti Semitic clement by reversing the Nazi policy toward the Jews. That a govcrn- nieiit controlled by Junkers and industrial barons would restore the rights of labor is too silly even to imagine. For Jews to hail Von Papen as a savior and liber¬ ator would be suicidal, for if he and his sui)porters,actually come into power and do not eradicate, conditions which have made the Nazi regime, an international by-word, the Jews will be out on a limb, Enlightened public opinion everywhere can support a. new regime in Germany only if it undoes everything for which the Hitler government is responsible. Any other change in Germany would be simply a delusion. (Copyright WH)
AHAVAS SHOLEM PICNIC SUNDAY AT OLENTANGY
The annual picnic. of the Ahavas Sholem Sisterhood will be held tbis Sun¬ day (tomorrow) at Olentangy Park. All members, their families and friends are cordially invited to come out to the park early and spend the entire day in com¬ fort and pleasure. Many games and con¬ tests will be on the day's program, aside from tbe interesting attractions of tlie park.
Tickets for tbe picnic are still available from any of the members. Pack your baskets and come out early.
Agfiidath Ackim Picnic July 29
Tha Sisterhood of the Agudath Achim Congregatioti wisli'to announce that their annual picnic will be held at Olentangy Park on Sunday, July 29. Rpmember to the industrialists and the laboring masses reserve this date.
Secretary of State Hull Blames
Germany's Financial
Plight on Nazis
WASHINGTON,. U, C —Germany's ddiue.stic |)olicies, which have created op- pu.sitiuii ill m,-uiy parts of the world and which tlius gave rise to a boycott of Gcniian goods, iiffccting Geniiaiiy's for¬ eign exchange position, an